Russian quality control is what’s wrong with the picture.
We can afford to have fewer nukes. Ours are more likely to work, AND to hit their targets.
That's what the Germans thought. You might be right and you might be wrong, but strategic decisions must not be based on hopeful supposition or temporary advantages. One Russian technological advance could change the whole picture. Rose Gottemoeller's "We still have more work to do" statement indicates that further American nuclear weapons reductions are planned, so this problem is only going to get worse.
Considering that we built a facility for the Russians during the late 90’s to dismantle their nuclear weapons, and of course they could just as easily use a facility like that to build them or maintain them as well if someone put half a brain to think about it. Its kind of humorous that not too long after it was built, our inspections to keep track of there dismantling program had suddenly stopped. They where no longer allowed access so one couldn’t verify what was actually going on. Then of course I could bring up the money we gave them to build what was supposed to be a facility to help burn out the fuel in their unused ballistic missiles for treaty purposes, but only to have them come back for more money (and approved by the managing office) that eventually lead to the building of a facility that had the ability to now make them. The treachery in our deep recesses of our government runs very deep.